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Rasterman Speaks On E17 And The Future

Posted by Hemos on from the peering-into-the-crystal-ball dept.

JigSaw writes: "The team consisting of TheRasterman and Mandrake (among others) are hard at work to bring Enlightenment 0.17 to the Linux desktop. E17 will be a lot more than a window manager, something closer to a complete GUI solution for X. OSNews hosts an interesting interview with Rasterman and also features some (unseen-before) screenshots of E17. Some say that E17 will be the next big thing in the GUI design (even if Rasterman states in the interview that Linux won't probably take over the Desktop), with plans to incorporate libraries like eVas, which look very modern in concept, design and implementation."

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  1. Re: Good Troll by Pengo · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    I will bite. ;-)

    I have 10 web servers running Debian 2.2 w/old kernel and ext2fs.

    Never have downtime

    Never have Lost Data

    .... even .. *gasp*.. my NFS works as expected.

    Try running some benchmarks of Java application servers against a Windows Machine, HP-UX machine and a Solaris based system. You will be surprised on the results, the penguin screams. (Expecially with the IBM port of jdk 1.3 w/Native Threads).

    Google is the (might I say?) most populare and usefull search engine on the internet. Powered by Linux.

    Yahoo used to use BSD on their indexing engine. Seems odd, Yahoo also uses Java for a large number of their applications. Which JDK do you think they are using on those BSD machines? Might I *gasp* guess that they are not using BSD everywhere?

    Get real buddy. Go off and play with your commercial unices or Windows, but when push comes to shove.. most of the new interesting applications for unix are going to Linux FIRST and other commercial unix second. I use Irix and Solaris and it's a hell of a lot easier to get stuff compiled and working on Linux.

    Windows is just too hard to manage in a datacenter, just as linux might be dificult to manage in a corp. desktop environment.

    But don't base your stupid facts on 4 year old kernel defaults, it's just plain FUD.

  2. Re:Not another... by asincero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > I'd rather have choices.

    I'll never understand why people think that just because theres a standard Linux desktop, that automatically means you are restricted to use that desktop and that desktop only. Shit, you're not even restricted to only use the Windows UI in Windows!

    WAKE THE FiretrUCK UP!

    - Arcadio